The initial Max OS X port was made by Elias on a Mac we borrowed. With the limited time in hand Elias successfully created a Mac port (although somewhat crippled). As some of you may know, we have since then tried many times to get Mac developers to join the team. So far we have met with limited success. In order to fix the LWJGL Mac port we needto have a dedicated developer with a Mac willing to offer a lot of spare time. To that end Elias (or actually the - soon to be - company Oddlabs that is currently workingon Tribal Trouble) has expressed a willingness to purchase a Mac and commit to finally getting Mac OS X properly supported. As Elias has already proved his skills, we see this as a very good solution.

However, as many of you know Mac hardware is rather pricey - which is why we have decided to donate what is in the LWJGL donation fund (It was originally setupto allow us to do whatever needed to get a Mac port going). We hope to increase the fund to $1000 USD as fast as possible.

The fund currently holds $90.89 USD. Caspian Rychlik-Prince willdonate $400 (!) to the cause which means we're already halfway! The sooner we reach the $1000 mark, the sooner the Mac port can be finished!

This is your chance to help out with the LWJGL library! So dig deep

Should we increase this fund to more than $1000 the remaining money will be kept in the fund, and used to help with creating new features (ie. purchasing a controller to do the Force Feedback implementation), hosting on a proper server or other LWJGL causes.

Can you let me know how that goes? I followed the link from here and donated at SF but I'm not sure if the money's gone to the right place. It's on my credit card though:) Listed as some ODSN type thing.

Yeah - I'd also llike to get a better view of promised money vs received money Unfortunately the transactions from SF only have the amount, and some generic SF email as sender of money Therefore I can only confirm those that:a) send directly to the fund (using brian@matzon.dk as paypal receiver)b) make a comment which includes their namec) are registered SF users so they are listed in the donations list on the project page.

I will try to sort something out later tonight...I have yet to confirm any donations though - think I'll do that tonight too

Yeah, you might have a point... At least when the donation goes directly to me, I can track who is donating and thank them.Looking forward to your donation aNt Going by current rate (and especially since it's almost time for a paycheck) I think we will start very soon (Elias is on a two week vacation, so we at least have to wait that long).

aNt, Let us know how you get along. I still haven't heard back from either Sourceforge or PayPal regarding my misdirected payment.

I have raised a Donation Support Request with sourceforge my ticket number is 1000477, here are the details.

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Hi there,

I recently tried to make a donation to the LWJGLproject, I followed a link from their site to sourceforge.

However upon arrival I read the page that suggested Ilog on to sourceforge so that the donation would belinked to my account, and I'd get to see a nice iconnext to my name to show that I'm a supporter.

So I logged on to sourceforge and proceeded to make my$100 donation. However it soon became evident after mypayment was made that it was not recieved by the LWJGLproject but by sourceforge itself.

I'd like to get the money reallocated from sourceforgeto LWJGL, which is where I intended to send the moneyin the first place.

I'd also like to point out that this 'loss of focus'during the log on process was very subtle andultimately annoying, since I now have to chase up mypayment.

andy dude- yer i poped one support request in also, hadnothing back. if nothing happens by next week i will callthem and bleet on the phone .

matzon- tomato is a design company. we make loads ofstuff mate . sneek peak at the movie related stuff ishere: http://cherry.tomato.co.uk/ we are updating andpoping all new stuff online.... arrrrr..... loads of stuff .we built a ps2 game- but didnt like it so its over to Java; maddness is my middle name

Hmm, I also got my money back - took them 10 days or so!yes, I fell for it too, even though I knew that I should make certain that I was donating to LWJGL and not SF *grumble*Best way to do it is to either send it directly to brian@matzon.dk using paypal or be logged in on SF and make absolutely certain that you're donating to LWJGL.

Well it's been over a month since many here gave their donations, and we have yet to see any progress in even getting the Mac machine let alone fixing the LWJGL Mac port. A status update would be nice.

sorry - you're absolutely right. However there have been posts on the lwjgl board on puppygames.net (forum.lwjgl.org).We have had unbelieavable problems moving the money from the paypal account to elias's account. We believe to have solved this within a weeks time (finally!!!).I am sorry that things haven't progressed faster - but paypal has been nothing but a huge problem for us!

We will make an official announcement as soon as all money is in the hands of elias. And I am sure he will do progress reports too.

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